The collection includes the memoirs about everyday and cultural life of the Poles in St. Petersburg in the first half of the 19th century. Memoirs of O.A. Przhetslavskii previously scattered in various journals are gathered together for the first time. Memoirs of S. Morawski, T. Bobrovski and A.G. Kirkor are translated into Russian. Among the characters of the memoirs are O.I. Senkovsky, F.W. Bulgarin, A. Mickiewicz, A.S. Pushkin, N.N. Novosiltsov, A.S. Shishkov, A.A. Zakrewsky, K. Drutskoi-Lyubetsky, A. Orlov, Y. Oleshkevich, M. Shimanovskaya and many others. (1.025 kg.)